James Sullivan Starkey

James Sullivan Starkey

Was born in Dublin, son of physician William Starkey and Martha Starkey (née Sullivan). He left university without a degree and worked in the family pharmacy while devoting himself to poetry, literature and book collecting. Always diffident and shy and initially encouraged by AE, he didn't get on with Yeats. Starkey was friendly with Oliver St John Gogarty and was at the Martello tower in Sandycove several times in 1904.

Starkey, under the pseudonym Seumas O'Sullivan, founded and ran the Dublin Magazine from 1923-1958, publishing new writers such as Beckett, Austin Clarke and Mary Lavin. He was married to painter Estella Solomons. Tim O'Neill